Guess that kinda dates the Zamboni in Little rock!!!

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At 12:26 PM 2/15/2006, ROBERT DONALDS wrote:
>Chris and fellow vanagon types
>
>I still build and sell allot of air and water cooled engines for the
>Zambonis mostly propane and some LNG. They did have a single port industrial
>engine in the late sixties and the early seventies.The next step was to go
>to the in line 4 cylinder rabbit 1.5 and 1.6 then onto the 1.7 and now the
>standard replacement engine for all water-cooled VW powered Zambonis is the
>hydraulic lifter carbed 1.8 engine
>I visited the factory a few years ago and they had a huge machine ready to
>ship to the Netherlandsand it was diesel powered. I was told this was for
>the outdoor speed skating tracks
>the Nissan engine is now the standard power plant unless you have the 80 K
>for the electric Ice resurfacer
>
>I thought about this while driving in my vanagon
>Bob Donalds
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <JordanVw@AOL.COM>
>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:38 AM
>Subject: vw industrial aircooled motors (was: Re: better blog, good vehicle
>on ice (LVC)
>
>
>>In a message dated 2/15/06 4:43:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>>jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU writes:
>>
>>
>>>But various people have told me that zambonis actually have VW engines
>>
>>used to..  not anymore.    the aircooled industrial beetle engine was used
>>to
>>power all kinds of things back in the 50's 60's and early 70's.  back in
>>the
>>60's you could walk in your vw dealer and order a industrial upright
>>aircooled
>>engine..came strapped to a pallet with its own fuel tank, and pulleys for
>>the
>>PTO, etc.
>>. they were used for pump engines, small machinery, even tractors and
>>snowblowers, snow cats, etc.. lots of instances where cold weather made
>>liquid
>>cooling a problem.
>>
>>most of today's Zamboni's and the like have industrial japanese
>>watercooled
>>engines.
>>
>>chris